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JavaScript UI frameworks
Raised as a usability problem by 20 people on Hacker News over 15 years (2010–2024), in 20 threads.
This is a broad category rather than one product, so its issues aren't ranked on the home page.
People raised many different problems with JavaScript UI frameworks, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 20 complaints
- Screen readers miss clickable elements and middle-click opening breaks unpredictably2024-11-30
- Hooking JavaScript after framework rendering is annoying and causes content to flash wrongly2024-05-04
- Common keyboard shortcuts like double-click, Enter, and Home/End are missing from many web UI widgets2024-01-08
- Interactive JS plots become so slow they freeze the whole browser tab2023-04-27
- The page is unusable for the commenter2022-12-10
- Custom smooth scrolling often breaks and behaves unexpectedly, frustrating users2022-11-22
- JavaScript-heavy web interfaces are slow to respond on mobile devices2022-11-12
- Frameworks can make textboxes laggy, and abstractions can block fixing it2022-09-07
- UIs built with JS are very slow and laggy to interact with2021-03-02
- Framework-heavy pages load slowly, giving a subpar user experience2020-03-19
- Each slide adds a history entry, so going back to the original page takes many clicks2020-01-26
- Modal popup libraries fail when JavaScript is blocked, giving a horrible experience2019-03-12
- Layered plugins, configs and duplicated API/auth logic make production apps hard to get working2017-05-22
- Charts are nearly unusable on mobile devices for nontrivial visualizations2016-05-26
- Node, Angular and React are unintelligible for non-experts to learn and use2016-05-18
- Learning curve so steep the author doesn't know where to begin2016-02-18
- JavaScript UI performance is poor, with jitter and flashes during DOM manipulation2013-07-12
- Web menus and dialogs are confusing and break for users2012-07-09
- Modal lightbox breaks middle-click and ctrl-click to open images in new tabs2010-11-09
- Words are hyphenated at wrong points, like 'colu-mns' and 'manuscri-pt'2010-04-22